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Adam Schiff was a CA Senator from 1996 to 2000. In those 4 years, he was an architect of mass incarceration. He had a particular affinity for caging children.
He voted for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but it's his war on the poor & BIPOC in CA we're still trying to clean up. https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1355346722327830530
He voted for the invasion of Iraq in 2003, but it's his war on the poor & BIPOC in CA we're still trying to clean up. https://twitter.com/shaunking/status/1355346722327830530
Schiff authored legislation creating the Dept. of Juvenile Justice (baby prisons). (1997-1998, SB 483)
Schiff authored legislation to allow 14 year olds to be tried in adult court, (and sent to adult prison) without a judge's prior approval. (SB 1293)
Schiff authored legislation to allow 14 year olds to be tried in adult court, (and sent to adult prison) without a judge's prior approval. (SB 1293)
Schiff authored legislation to create "Juvenile Boot Camps" for "crimes" committed by children at school.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1937
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1937
He authored legislation that made it much, much easier for the state to take poor people's children away from them. Permanently.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB2043
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB2043
Schiff authored legislation to mandate that homeless "sex offenders" (our registration laws are incredibly broad) to register w/in 5 days of changing their "address" or be incarcerated.
Schiff authored legislation to massively fund local policing. (SB 882)
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1936
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1936
Schiff authored legislation to allow children who were arrested (not convicted), to be fingerprinted. He authored other legislation for law enforcement to share a child's personal information.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1751
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1751
Schiff authored legislation to increase punishment for vandalism offenses. (SB 1229)
Schiff authored legislation to incarcerate minors for "truancy" (not a crime) if they were in a "gang." (Our "gang" laws are racist and overbroad and based on police officers saying "he's in a gang b/c I say so.") SB 1279
Schiff authored legislation to make juvenile proceedings *open to the public.*
This legislation explicitly said neither the child, nor the child's attorney, could object to having the public (including press) present. The trauma.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1391
This legislation explicitly said neither the child, nor the child's attorney, could object to having the public (including press) present. The trauma.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1391
Schiff authored legislation (SB 1900) that eliminated limits on consecutive sentencing enhancements. Want to know why we have 75 to life, or 127 to life sentences, and other insane sentences?
Adam Schiff.
Adam Schiff.
Schiff authored legislation to expand the number of crimes, creating such crimes as "aggravated trespass."
However, cops were exempt. Entry into Breonna Taylor's home? A-ok. Cops entering a home without a warrant? Fine.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1486
However, cops were exempt. Entry into Breonna Taylor's home? A-ok. Cops entering a home without a warrant? Fine.
https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000SB1486
This list is partial & doesn't begin to include all the damage he did.
But the damage he did here, he continued in Congress. He voted recently to *expand the federal death penalty*, is creating new crimes, and voted against criminal legal reforms.
We can't go back.
#NotSchiff
But the damage he did here, he continued in Congress. He voted recently to *expand the federal death penalty*, is creating new crimes, and voted against criminal legal reforms.
We can't go back.
#NotSchiff
